Apple hasn’t made a major product introduction since it rolled out the Apple Watch in 2015, but with its “Reality Pro” mixed-reality headset, expected to retail for $3,000, the company will be entering into a market that has so far failed to catch on with mainstream consumers. Designer Marcus Kane’s conception Apple’s mixed reality headset (via Yanko Design) Emily Bary for MarketWatch: Apple has a history, though, of turning technology categories into trends, and a team of Goldman Sachs analysts says the company might be able to work its magic again with the Reality Pro headset. “Although we recognize that the [augmented/virtual reality] industry as a whole has generally been disappointing, we believe that Apple’s potential AR/VR headset can succeed…

SFTP and rsync are two tools that can help you transfer files across networks and the web. Here's how to use them within macOS.You can use SFTP and rsync on a Mac to handle file transfers.The are many occasions on which you need to transfer files between two computers on a LAN, in an office, across the web, or to a remote server. Many workers today use cloud services such as Google Drive or Dropbox for such transfers. Read more...

SFTP and rsync are two tools that can help you transfer files across networks and the web. Here's how to use them within macOS.You can use SFTP and rsync on a Mac to handle file transfers.There are many occasions on which you need to transfer files between two computers on a LAN, in an office, across the web, or to a remote server. Many workers today use cloud services such as Google Drive or Dropbox for such transfers. Read more...

SFTP and rsync are two tools that can help you transfer files across networks and the web. Here's how to use them within macOS.You can use SFTP and rsync on a Mac to handle file transfers.There are many occasions on which you need to transfer files between two computers on a LAN, in an office, across the web, or to a remote server. Many workers today use cloud services such as Google Drive or Dropbox for such transfers. Read more...

Macworld On Thursday, Apple released a slew of updates that bring a few new features to the iPhone and Mac. But much more importantly, the updates include three critical zero-day patches for security vulnerabilities that are known to have been actively exploited. The most alarming of the bugs allow a hacker to access personal data and take over your device via a malicious app. The WebKit flaws span Apple’s family of devices and have been patched in iOS 16.5, iPadOS 16.5, watchOS 9.5, macOS 13.4, and tvOS 16.5, but also iOS/iPadOS 15.7.6, macOS Monterey 12.6.6, and macOS Big Sur 11.7.7, as well as Safari 16.5. All of the updates include the same five WebKit fixes, with three of them known…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge So Apple has restricted the use of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Copilot, The Wall Street Journal reports. ChatGPT has been on the ban list for months, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman adds. It’s not just Apple, but also Samsung and Verizon in the tech world and a who’s who of banks (Bank of America, Citi, Deutsche Bank, Goldman, Wells Fargo, and JPMorgan). This is because of the possibility of confidential data escaping; in any event, ChatGPT’s privacy policy explicitly says your prompts can be used to train its models unless you opt out. The fear of leaks isn’t unfounded: in March, a bug in ChatGPT revealed data from other users. Is there a world where…